Electoral Politics

by Dennis Kavanagh

Overview

Elections are universal methods of political choice and decision-making. This book includes essays on key topics of voting behaviour, election rules, the media, election pacts, and the consequences of elections. The distinguished authors are drawn from both sides of the Atlantic—including Donald Stokes, Austin Ranney, Richard Rose, Anthony King, and Dennis Kavanagh. They form a tribute to the famous student of elections, David Butler.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198273813
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/24/1992
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	278
Product dimensions:	5.69(w) x 8.81(h) x 0.89(d)

About the Author

Nottingham University

Table of Contents

	David Edgeworth Butler: A Biography	ix
1.	David Butler and the Study of Elections	1
2.	Political Change in Britain	25
3.	Press Partisanship: Into the 1990s	51
4.	Dialogue of the Deaf? The Elite and the Electorate in Mid-Century Britain	71
5.	The Natives are Restless: The Reporting of British By-Elections	97
6.	Expressive versus Instrumental Voting	114
7.	Valence Politics	141
8.	Electoral Pacts in Britain since 1886	165
9.	The British Electoral System: Fixture without Foundation	188
10.	Divided Party Control in the United States	207
11.	The Electoral Systems Researcher as Detective: Probing Rae's Suspect 'Differential Proposition' on List Proportional Representation	234
12.	Northern Ireland, 1921-1929: A Failed Consociational Experiment	247
	Contributors	262
	Index	265

Editorial Reviews

"Contains contributions by some of the most respected members of the British academic network....Fascinating and broadly imaginative pieces."—Choice

"Strikingly uniform is the high quality of the several chapters....A thoughtful placement of Butler's work in the British empirical tradition, treating the study of politics as the accurate description of events rather than as material for grand theories or broad generalizations. Such treatment, however, is consistent with insightful understanding vividly expressed."—British Politics Group Newsletter

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